Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
-Jean Cocteau
Quotations
Silence
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence.
-Robert Lynd
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
-Pythagoras
Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!
-Mehmet Murat Ildan
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
-Benjamin Franklin
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s sounds.
-Paul Brunton "Paul Brunton"
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
